Now that the city of Baghdad has been taken, can the Coalition concentrate on rescuing the surviving POWs? We would need to know how to find them, and what to do after that.
How can such a rescue take place?
I’m thinking that “reverse bounties” could be offered – we’d offer money for their safe return.
Is this feasible? If not, what would work?
It might, but moot now 
Well, there are still 11 MIAs.
We could always just ask a cop where they are.
At this stage of the game, whoever is holding them would be wise to cut a deal. Causing any harm to them could very well be suicidal.
As of the evening news broadcast tonight, it appears that the POW’s have been rescued. At least, most of them – the others may not have survived the battles where they were captured.
It was rather unclear just what the circumstances of their rescue were; whether our soldiers found them or someone told our soldiers where they were. Deliberately so, I thought – I expect that our soldiers had some help finding them, but that those giving the help don’t want publicity about it.
One rumor I have heard is that part of the price of those who helped find them was “green cards for me & my family”. No idea if this is accurate or not.
[The Marine unit was sent to Samarra to keep traffic from interfering with an armored column approaching Tikrit, Brig. Gen. John Kelly told Matthew Fisher, a reporter with Canada’s National Post newspaper.
. . .
At a traffic circle near a dam on Samarra’s outskirts, an Iraqi policeman approached the Marines and asked if they had come for prisoners, Fisher said.
The policeman led the Marines to a nearby building, Fisher reported, where they found the seven Americans guarded by Iraqi soldiers.](http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/04/13/sprj.irq.pows.freed/index.html)